The Language Dani Is Spoken in the Amazon Rainforest

question 164

Multiple Choice

The language Dani is spoken in the Amazon rainforest.The language has just two color words, one to refer to darkly colored objects and one to refer to lightly colored objects.Some researchers have argued that the Dani would not be able to perceive the entire color spectrum because the language lacks words for all the colors.This view is referred to as:

• A)linguistic adaptation
• B)cognitive linguistics
• C)linguistic grammar
• D)linguistic relativity

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Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the magnitude of the experimental effect.

Expected Frequencies

In statistics, the anticipated counts in each category of a contingency table if there were no association between the variables.

Multiple Correlation

A statistical technique that predicts the value of one variable based on the combined values of two or more other variables.

Pearson Correlation

A measure of the linear correlation between two variables, quantified by a coefficient that ranges from -1 to 1.